All High Yield articles – Page 21
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White papersAsset Allocation Monthly: May 2017
We have recently increased our equity rating to favour from neutral on the back of lower political risk and positive earnings developments.
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White papersThe emerging markets cloud receding
As US rhetoric on trade protectionism softens, investors are focusing on emerging markets’ fundamental attractions once more as productivity improvements and fast-growing young populations are driving superior economic growth.
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White papersUniversity bond issues: Making the grade
Guillaume highlights that our top UK universities are among the best in the world, making their bonds potentially attractive investments.
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White papersDon’t let interest rate risk keep you out of fixed income
Fixed income investors tend to focus on interest rates and worry that when interest rates rise the value of bonds goes down.
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White papersHow should investors approach US infrastructure?
Improving and expanding US infrastructure involves more than building roads and bridges.
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White papersTrumponomics: What could go right?
When it comes to policy, there are things that can go right and things that can go wrong – particularly so with Trumponomics.
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White papersIn Credit: Honey, I shrunk the market...
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) minutes confirmed that, as expected, there will be a rate hike in the US next month.
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White papersIn Credit: Macron sweeps to victory
Core bond yields edged modestly higher in the last week faced with a more hawkish US central bank; robust employment data; and an easy victory for Macron in the French election.
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White papersTrump unnerves Asia
The new US administration’s trade and foreign policy threatens to unsettle relations with Asia-Pacific nations. It is commonplace to say that the election of President Donald Trump has created uncertainty and nervousness among both US’s allies and its rivals.
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White papersSoutheast Asia’s credit stability
Credit rating agencies are optimistic that Southeast Asian countries will weather the fallout from developments in other regions. Southeast Asia appears vulnerable to several forces it can do little to control.
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White papersShenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect opens for traffic
Offering a bridge for international investors accessing China’s ‘new economy’, policymakers are confident in Stock Connect’s future. China’s recent policy initiatives to attract international investors to its equities markets have struggled.
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White papersIndonesia’s reforms gather momentum
Jokowi’s administration is making progress and pleasing investors in a region troubled by political controversies. Expectations were high when Joko Widodo won Indonesia’s presidential election in 2014.
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White papersHow China rules the waves
FT investigation: Beijing has spent billions expanding its ports network to secure sea lanes and establish itself as a maritime power. Pakistan’s Arabian Sea port of Gwadar is perched on the world’s energy jugular. Sea lanes nearby carry most of China’s oil imports; any disruption could choke the world’s second-largest economy.
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White papersAsia’s markets appear set to withstand US rate rises
Bond and currency markets have strong fundamentals and look ready to ride the US interest rate cycle comfortably.
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White papersAsian fund passports’ slow progress
While passports are likely to accelerate growth in the local fund industry, national interests are hindering their development.
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White papersIn Credit: Prague-matic central bank removes currency cap
A combination of mixed US economic data, Trump’s missile strike in Syria, headlines around the US and North Korea and news of attacks in Russia and Sweden all served to keep a lid on core government bond yields over the week.
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White papersIn Credit: You can check out any time you like...but can you ever leave?
Deutsche Bank notes that global economic surprises have reached a six and a half year high globally, which continues to support risk assets.
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White papersSecured Finance: Can extra yield be obtained without sacrificing credit quality?
Investors may not have to look towards the lower end of the credit ratings spectrum in order to earn higher yields than those currently avail- able in investment grade corporate bonds.
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White papersAsset Allocation Monthly: March 2017
Global equity markets are near all-time highs, bond markets are relatively calm, and currency volatility is reasonably low.
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White papersThreadneedle UK Social Bond Fund: three years of doing well by doing good
Following its third anniversary, in January 2017, the fund has shown it can offer investors both profit and principle.
